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• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  around five hours to reach South Station in Boston, but the six of us ... !" Mathematician: "If one more person goes into the building, it will be empty!" The ... had to navigate to MIT student center. Here we are buying tickets for

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  : (Calmly) "UmmmmOKAY."* *Note: Liberally adapted from original discussion. Figure 1 ... resistance, cancer, and/or manufacturing/synthetic biology while considering ... Museum like typical American tourists (or about as typical as a Peruvian

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP of Coding time to catch up

  

  "The Pretender" reached 6,000 views in less than a month and has been ... after only one or two revisions. And people really like that. So I ask myself whether I should do more quirky elaborate posts or continue with

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 5, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Transporting In & Around MIT Everything you need to know about how easy it is to get around MIT.

  

  the weekend, like Walden Pond or Cape Cod. My friend Anthony '10 found ... look something like this: In addition to subways (which cost $1.70 to $2.00 a ride), the MBTA also runs buses (these cost $1.25 to $1.50 a ride

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  further: if you expected me to write about physics, or midterms, or having too much work to do, or hilarious mistakes in my problem sets, or what ... and bipolar, or maybe tripolar, yet glamorous in a brutal Russian sort

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  either an acronym or a number. There's a quirky language to MIT, a handful ... reading a random assortment of words you may hear: cruft: 1. n literally ... away, typically lab equipment and electronics found on reuse or at Stata

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  back to Ghana sooner...” he said, “once people get married or have ... participate in the MISTI program Global Teaching Labs (GTL). In the GTL program ... greenhouse or botany subjects altogether. Kibbutz Ecological Greenhouse and its

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  . Or, at least, it always seems exceptional to me after the fact. In the ... , signage everywhere. A man is asking "15 or 30 minutes?" for observation and ... hopeful again—relieved that the national nightmare is finally over, or

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  "]Paterson.[/annotation]  “Hmm this reminds me of Scotland. Or more like, my imagination of what ... that could give James Charles a run for his money. When [annotation note="Global ... school through Years 1-6 (ages 5-11), and then secondary school from Years

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  Laboratory"]6.2220[/annotation] together) Will I graduate? (Yes... hopefully ... ’t learn college-level differential equations or quantum mechanics in high ... this year. Course 6n’t For better or worse, my own MIT degree audit is

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  Weekend (CPW), you will have the opportunity to experience what life at MIT ... classes, and (best of all?) go to college parties! You will roam the ... . They’re pretty cute, since I had absolutely no idea what was going on, or

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development

  

  develop or innovate a product –it can be anything!-- that will assist ... communal showers in fear of attack or harassment going there and coming back ... -effective and easily installable shower system units will be implemented on almost

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark

  

  because I didn’t know where to buy cake. I also had an end ... anniversary, or goes on vacation, they bring cake to work. They send a ... taste much better when they cost 10 krones (~$1.50) at the supermarket

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  neuroscientist (or your parents) will tell you, your brain does need sleep in order ... information as well when you’re awake, and you might say or do some things ... was. Note my amused face in this picture.  Or it can be bad when

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  .20 $1.00 x 2 = $2 $2 darts among Erica, Ling, Simon $5 ring toss among ... .84 each darts: $2/3 $.67: Erica, Ling, Simon = $5.51 ring toss: $5/5 $1: Erica, Ling, Simon = $6.51; Sam, Nick = $5.84 jacob's ladder: $5/4 $1

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Surviving CPW Tips and tricks on making the most of your CPW experience

  

  about CPW and I'll answer them here on the blog or someone else will if I ... , faculty, and anyone else you manage to meet. Rule #1: If you're paying for ... getting much sleep whether it was checking out another aspect of MIT or

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  donate 0 or 1 coins and I would be pushed out of the 25th percentile, thus ... 1st place for an individual game, he was removed from the overall ... small prize of $15. In my last post, I wrote about Game 1: Hide and Seek

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grind Time It = late. Coffee = love. You = intrigued.

  

  what I wrote towards the end of class. Something about capital mobility ... have liked to make up for lost sleep on Tuesday or Wednesday night, but ... 9:00 AM! How on earth will I stay awake in class?!?! I have an idea....

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No one: Absolutely no one:

  

  this book.” “Oh, wow we had so many stocked up school supplies!”  Next ... .  We think everyone who likes drawing and anime will, at one point in their lives, draw anime. But being extra, we went to Michaels to buy a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  -day week and here's what I've done tonight: 1. gone to a two-hour group ... independent research project we're performing or the 20-page advanced technical ... site, it will be sufficient to distract everybody enough to let me make

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005